For IA #5: First click on the following link: https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/christopher.carney/engl1302/the-great-global-warming-swindle-full-documentary Links to an external site.  Then, read all of the overview text at the bottom of the prompt describing this unique film on a relevant and controversial topic. Watch the film and be objective in your discussion as you address the specific prompt question. Take notes on all of the specific titles of the speakers, noting their ETHOS and/or their credibility to speak on the matter. Also,  pay close attention to the film's emphasis on how this particular topic is more of a media and/or a political issue than a scientific issue--even though it is obviously a scientific subject, and the speakers in the film actually ask why they are censored when they advocate for the scientific method instead of dogma. In this response, you will be evaluated, in a big part,  on your ability to accurately and specifically decipher the claim (the thesis) OF THE FILM and multiple points made in the documentary--in addition to how you respond to the very specific prompt question below using  your own unique critical thinking and analysis.  PROMPT QUESTION: Given the qualifications of speakers in the documentary, especially those with science backgrounds with earned credentials, explain why you believe their "natural causes" (for climate change) views are censored in mainstream media and/or never presented  through open debates with those who preach the popular narrative on this particularly charged topic of global warming. NOTE: This prompt is NOT asking you to defend a position either for or against the subject of global warming, as doing so would be to miss the thesis of the documentary and this prompt because the focus of this prompt is on the media and/or the dissemination of information. On a page before your analysis starts, provide a list of all the speakers and their respective titles (ethos) please; copy and paste the list below if you wish. ______________ Overview of the Film: The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4. A documentary, by British television producer Martin Durkin, which argues against the virtually unchallenged consensus that global warming is man-made. A statement from the makers of this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic global warming could very well be "the biggest scam of modern times." According to Martin Durkin the chief cause of climate change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the sun. Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the definitive retort to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Using a comprehensive range of evidence it's claimed that warming over the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a 'little ice age'. According to the program humans do have an effect on climate but it's infinitesimally.

1. For IA #5:
First click on the following link:
https://learning.hccs.edu/faculty/christopher.carney/engl1302/th
e-great-global-warming-swindle-full-documentary
Links to an external site.
Then, read all of the overview text at the bottom of the prompt
describing this unique film on a relevant and controversial
topic.
Watch the film and be objective in your discussion as you
address the specific prompt question. Take notes on all of
the specific titles of the speakers, noting their ETHOS and/or
their credibility to speak on the matter. Also,
pay close attention to the film's emphasis on how this
particular topic is more of a media and/or a political issue than
a scientific issue--even though it is obviously a scientific
subject, and the speakers in the film actually ask why they are
censored when they advocate for the scientific method instead
of dogma.
In this response, you will be evaluated, in a big part, on your
ability to accurately and specifically decipher the claim (the
thesis) OF THE FILM and multiple points made in the
documentary--in addition to how you respond to the very
specific prompt question below using
your own unique critical thinking and analysis.
PROMPT QUESTION: Given the qualifications of speakers in
the documentary, especially those with science backgrounds
with earned credentials, explain why you believe their "natural
causes" (for climate change) views are censored in mainstream
media and/or never presented through open debates with those
who preach the popular narrative on this particularly charged
topic of global warming. NOTE: This prompt is NOT asking you
to defend a position either for or against the subject of global

2. warming, as doing so would be to miss the thesis of the
documentary and this prompt because the focus of this prompt is
on the media and/or the dissemination of information.
On a page before your analysis starts, provide a list of all the
speakers and their respective titles (ethos) please; copy and
paste the list below if you wish.
______________
Overview of the Film:
The Great Global Warming Swindle caused controversy in the
UK when it premiered March 8, 2007 on British Channel 4. A
documentary, by British television producer Martin Durkin,
which argues against the virtually unchallenged consensus that
global warming is man-made. A statement from the makers of
this film asserts that the scientific theory of anthropogenic
global warming could very well be "the biggest scam of modern
times." According to Martin Durkin the chief cause of climate
change is not human activity but changes in radiation from the
sun. Some have called The Great Global Warming Swindle the
definitive retort to Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Using a
comprehensive range of evidence it's claimed that warming over
the past 300 years represents a natural recovery from a 'little ice
age'.
According to the program humans do have an effect on climate
but it's infinitesimally small compared with the vast natural
forces which are constantly pushing global temperatures this
way and that. From melting glaciers and rising sea levels, The
Great Global Warming Swindle debunks the myths, and exposes
what may well prove to be the darkest chapter in the history of
mankind. According to a group of leading scientists brought
together by documentary maker Martin Durkin everything
you've ever been told about global warming is probably untrue.
Just as we've begun to take it for granted that climate change is
a man-made phenomenon, Durkin's documentary slays the whole
premise of global warming.

3. "Global warming has become a story of huge political
significance; environmental activists using scare tactics to
further their cause; scientists adding credence to secure billions
of dollars in research money; politicians after headlines and a
media happy to play along. No-one dares speak against it for
risk of being unpopular, losing funds and jeopardizing careers."
Main contributors to the video:
1. Professor Tim Ball - Dept. of Climatology - University of
Winnepeg, Canada
2. Professor Nir Shaviv - Institute of Physics - University of
Jerusalem, Israel
3. Professor Ian Clark - Dept. of Earth Sciences - University of
Ottawa, Canada
4. Dr. Piers Corbyn, Solar Physicist, Climate Forecaster,
Weather Action, UK
5. Professor John Christy - Dept. of Atmospheric Science -
University of Alabama, Huntsville - Lead Author, IPCC (NASA
Medal - Exceptional Scientific Achievement)
6. Professor Philip Stott - Dept of Biogeography - University of
London, UK
7. Al Gore - Former Presidental Candidate
8. Margaret Thatcher - Global-Warming Promoter
9. Professor Paul Reiter - IPCC & Pasteur Institute, Paris,
France
10. Professor Richard Lindzen - IPCC & M.I.T.
11. Patrick Moore - Co-Founder - Greenpeace
12. Dr. Roy Spencer - Weather Satellite Team Leader - NASA
13. Professor Patrick Michaels - Department of Environmental
Sciences - University of Virginia, US
14. Nigel Calder - Former Editor - New Scientist
15. James Shikwati - Economist & Author
16. Lord Lawson of Blaby - Secretary of Energy - UK
Parliament Investigator, UK
17. Professor Syun-Ichi Akasofu - Director, International Arctic
Research Centre
18. Professor Fredrick Singer - Former Director, US National

4. Weather Service
19. Professor Carl Wunsch - Dept. of Oceanography - M.I.T.,
Harvard, University College, London, University of Cambridge,
UK
20. Professor Eigil Friis-Christensen - Director, Danish
National Space Centre
21. Dr. Roy Spencer - NASA Weather Satellite Team Leader
22. Paul Driessen - Author: Green Power, Black Death